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Vehicle 79163


Swindon Inter-City 79xxx series

Builder: Swindon Works
Layout: Inter-City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: White Circle
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30199
Diagram: 551

Allocations

18/03/57 New to 64A (St Margarets)
c. summer-58 Transferred to Leith Central
Nov-59Depot code change64H
19/10/72 Withdrawn from 64H (Leith Central)

Disposal

Scrapped by Bird Group, Long Marston

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


3 79098 79163 79481 79444 79157 79108 Noted 31st August 1957
79100 79161 79447 79481 79163 79107 Noted 15/08/70 - at Edinburgh Waverley1
79093 79163 79475 79160 79104 Listed at 64H - 10/06/71

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 8th June 1959

A six-car Swindon Inter-City DMU on a B service at Saughton Junction on 8 June 1959. The vehicles are recorded as 79102 (with roofboard) + 79163 + 79472 (with roofboard, not recorded as moving from WR to ScR till 9/59) + 79440 (buffet, moved WR to ScR 6/59) + 51008 (an Ayrshire vehicle on loan to Leith Central) + 79096. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 12th April 1974

Sc79102 in Polmadie shed on April 12, 1974. Withdrawn, it was there for component stripping, as were 79163 and 79167. Arnie Furniss.